#dungeon

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#been #day #dungeon #even #found

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#between #conservatives #difference #dragons #dungeons

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#dragons #dungeons #fire #game #gold

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#dungeon #heart #inexorable #jailer #other

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. ↗

— Lucretius

#apply #blows #dungeon #executioner #goad

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. ↗

— John Milton

#bright #centre #clear #dark #day

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#destruction #dungeons #duty #false #frightened

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#criminal #dig #dungeons #educational #gentle

It's like Dungeons and Dragons, but real." Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some bizarre species of insect. "It's like what?" "It's a game," Clary explained. She felt vaguely embarrassed. "People pretend to be wizards and elves, and they kill monsters and stuff." Jace looked stupefied. Simon grinned. "you've never hear of Dungeon and Dragons?" "I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct." Simon looked disappointed. "You've never killed a dragon?" "He's probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a fur bikini, either," Clary said irritably. "Lay off, Simon." "Real elves are about eight inches tall," Jace pointed out. "Also, they bite. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fantasy #reality #fantasy

Fashion Tip Number 12: Gray is not the color to wear if you want to get noticed in a smoky, dingy dungeon. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fashion #funny #humor #funny